Posted on 11/26/2024 11:19:27 AM PST by Red Badger
No matter what students bring to future "show and tells" at Orchard Junior School in the Southampton area of England, they will never be able to top this year's spectacle that shut down and evacuated the school.
One bonkers little tyke brought in a bit of vintage "unexploded ordinance" to show his mates.
The school quickly evacuated all the students, called the police, and texted the parents:
Schools are being closed & evacuated - please collect your child from Noadswood field ASAP.
Imagine getting that little note in the middle of the school day.
Laura Holloway, a mother of one of the students was at work at the time. She said,
It was so worrying. Another parent had called saying there were police everywhere. I knew my youngest would have been so scared.
But, she added:
Both schools seemed to deal with it all very well and had the kids lined up and checked off - it must have been very upsetting for everyone involved.
Once the students were out, the police showed up and sent in the bomb squad.
The police's full statement said: ‘We were called at about 1.30pm to a report that a child had brought what may have been a potentially unexploded ordnance to Orchard Junior School.
‘The school was calmly evacuated and a disposal team attended to take the item away to be destroyed as a precaution.'
Not an easy task by any means.
The real question everyone wants to know is "What kind of ‘historic incendiary device' are we talking about here?"
This is England after all. They've been blowing stuff up and getting blown up for centuries.
It could've been anything from a 16th-century mortar to a WWII hand grenade to that morning's beans on toast.
I was thinking strap it onto your trailer and tow it up there... this way you can use it if you get some breaks in the storms up there...
The tow trailer I have is one of those clam-shell bike trailers that are small enough to tow behind a bike... Not one big enough to put the bike on and tow with a truck.
Haven’t really had a need to for a bigger trailer yet. Last time I needed one I rented from U-Haul.
Ahh, for some reason I thought you had one that a bike could go on…
Images of Lt. Dan in the crows nest of the Bubba Gump shrimp boat.
Lol!
Good Friday Morning (day before Independence Day 250)!
A more serious mug have we not seen in sometime...
To quote our old friend, Joe Bastardi: “Enjoy the weather, it’s the only weather you’ve got...”
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Another one that would have been good in a game...
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A very likely scenario!!
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“You and what army?”
Well played! Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence Day!
At least he/she has a nice bowl of water waiting...
Cats are usually smart enough to stay inert in the shade when it’s this hot.
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